Tertullian On Idolatry But the same apostle elsewhere bids us take care to please all: "As I," he says, "please all by all means."[104] The Second Epistle of Clement Concerning Virginity desire to get a pretext against us and to speak evil of us, and that we may not be a stumbling-block to any one, on this account we cut off the pretext of those who desire to get a pretext against us; on this account we must be "on our guard that we be to no one a stumbling-block, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor yet to the Church of God; and we must not seek that which is profitable to ourselves only, but that which is for the profit of many, so that they may be saved."[22]